In the media: To Put Ball in the Net, Dutch Clubs Shoot Space Aliens First

In the media: To Put Ball in the Net, Dutch Clubs Shoot Space Aliens First

By Rory Smith - March 5, 2017

Some of the young players enrolled at PSV Eindhoven’s academy have had to burst balloons. Others have been told to shoot dots, and more still have been tasked with bringing down alien space fleets.

These are hardly the tasks traditionally demanded of teenage soccer prodigies, but then PSV, the Dutch club, does not think of itself as traditional. Most clubs, after all, are concerned only with developing players with nimble feet. PSV, increasingly, is concentrating on nurturing agile minds.